Volume 7, Issue 4 – Fall 2015
Published in Chicago by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine
Migrainous scotomata in art 
Madness at the Opera 
Consumption, Collapse, and Family by Alice NeelThe reader of this issue will travel from a gulag in Siberia to a psychiatric hospital in Moscow, visit a launching camp for Auschwitz and the venerable Cook County Hospital of Chicago, and undergo exposure to migraines, cholera, ergotism, and tuberculosis. Encounter beautiful art, question the use of acronyms in medicine, discover Argentinian tangos inspired by disease, and see a battered wife get the last word in our fall issue.
Frontispiece
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Art Flashes
Migrainous scotomata in art, JH McAuley
The plague of ergotism and the…, Wilson F. Engel, III
Tithonus and Eos, Emilio Mordini -
Literary Vignettes
Washer of the Dead, Ruth Deming
Anton Chekhov and the Sakhalin Penal…, Michael Bloor
Observations on Acronyms, J.M.S. Pearce -
Education
Mrs. Collins and the Body Snatchers, Michael Ellman
A Teacher Remembered, Martin Duke, MD
Verdi and Velázquez: perceptive sensitization in…, Daniel V. Schidlow and Florence Gelo -
Famous Hospitals
Westerbork Hospital – A blessing in…, Annabelle Slingerland
The Old Cook County Hospital of…, George Dunea
Gilyarovsky and Gannushkin psychiatric hospitals in…, Sergei Jargin -
Infectious Disease
Consumption, Collapse, and Family by Alice…, Gregory M. Rutecki
Tuberculosis Retrenched at Saranac Lake: A…, Gregory M. Rutecki
A Return to a Moralistic Perception…, Lauren Lewis -
Music Box
Madness at the Opera, George Dunea
“Breath of life you’ll be to…, Judith Wagner
Tango impressions with medical overtones, Lazaros Triarhou
